1st International Conference on LDAP

Call for Papers

September 06/07, 2007, Holiday Inn Hotel, Cologne Germany

The International Conference on LDAP is a technical forum for
IT professionals interested in LDAP and related topics like directory
servers, directory management applications, directory integration,
identity and access management, and meta directories.

It focuses on implementation and integration of LDAP servers and
LDAP-enabled client applications. The event will bring together
vendors, developers, active and prospective LDAP practitioners to
share their experiences about deployment strategies, service
operations, interoperability, discuss LDAP usage in new projects and
learn about upcoming trends and developments.

Topics

You are involved with LDAP in interesting projects?

You do LDAP client development?

You have used LDAP like no-one before?

You have innovative concepts on LDAP integration?

Why not share your experiences, good and bad, with others?

We look for speakers who are willing to talk about

the specific problems they ran into

and how they solved them or not,

current best practices for directory design,

their LDAP-enabled products,

new LDAP-related new standards and implementation efforts,

operational aspects, such as maintenance, backups, monitoring,

directory management applications

new open source project using LDAP,

security aspects such as access control,

directory deployment for provisioning and resource management,

client development,

how to develop LDAP applications with various programming languages,

identity management and federation,

PKI and LDAP,

LDAP and Policy

LDAP and XML.

The accepted talks will be grouped into a development, an administration and
a product presentation track.

Talk Submissions

Presentations should last about 45 minutes including discussion; in
exceptional cases 90 minute slots may be allotted.

For the conference proceedings we expect you to submit a paper (no
slides, please) of approximately 2-10 pages (A4 format, 1" borders, no
page headers/footers, preferably LaTeX source or PDF). By submitting
a paper you grant the conference organizers the non-exclusive right to
publish your paper in the conference proceedings; you maintain the
right to publish it elsewhere at your discretion.

Expenses

On request we will cover the speaker's accomodation and
participation costs at the conference, including the social event.

Travel expenses are generally not covered by us; if this poses a
problem to you, please contact us so we can try to arrange an
additional sponsorship.

BoF Sessions

Additionally, BoF (birds-of-a-feather) sessions could be held,
there will be a room for such spontaneous sessions. If you intend to
propose a BoF, please let us know the topic so we can announce it in
advance.

Location

Cologne, the host of the 1st International Conference on LDAP,
achieved the status of a town in the time of the Roman Empire. It is well
known for its Gothic cathedral where the bones of the Three Wisemen
are kept in a golden sarcophagus. Tourists especially like the impressive
panorama over the river Rhine to the cathedral, the old storehouses, the
town hall and several Romanesque churches.

The conference will take place at
Holiday Inn Köln -- Am Stadtwald
Dürener Strasse 287
50935 Köln (Cologne)
Germany
located in at a nice park in the south-western part of Cologne.